Projects

RDA-Riverina support for Riverina projects

RDA-Riverina is involved in the development and implementation of projects across the region.

Image Credit - Coolamon NYE 2016 - Jamie Blair

This involvement may be as an initiator, facilitator, supporter or implementer depending on the nature of the project. RDA Riverina values community driven, innovative, inclusive and sustainable initiatives.

RDA-Riverina develops close partnerships with many stakeholders from the three tiers of Government, business, industry and communities when working on projects in the Riverina.

Do you have a regionally significant project that you think RDA-Riverina might be able to assist? Fill out the Project Outline Form with more details and submit to RDA-Riverina Chief Executive Officer, Rachel Whiting

RDA-Riverina supports a wide range of projects across the Riverina region. Find out more below and see how you can get involved.

Our Projects & Success Stories

With a focus on facilitating the growth and prosperity of the region, RDA Riverina has produced a Regional Profile to help local government, industry, small business and community groups better understand the region in which they operate.

In early 2017, through RDA Riverina’s relationships with the local horticulture industry, we became aware of a skills shortage. Growers expressed difficulty in finding skilled staff after advertising widely. Affected horticulture industries in the Riverina include irrigated crops of citrus, tree nuts, vegetables, stone fruit, wine grapes and the cooler climate apple industry.

RDA-Riverina offers grant writing workshops to community groups and individuals across the Riverina region throughout the year to provide advice and tips on how to produce a high-quality grant application.

Riverina Top Plates is an RDA Riverina initiative for TASTE Riverina Food Festival. It is also an eat local campaign to be launched online in September 2016 to coincide with Riverina’s flagship event TASTE Riverina Festival.

The Western Riverina Grow Our Own initiative is a national partnership lead by Bendigo Bank and Deakin University in partnership with RDA Riverina, TAFE Riverina Institute, local councils and other organisations and networks across the Western Riverina.

This project funded under the Energise Enterprise Fund supports the development of a business case to identify the financial and economic returns in establishing softwood plantations which support the expansion and growth of timber processing facilities.

As part of an ongoing commitment to youth leadership across the Riverina, RDA-Riverina announced its support for the 2013 National Rural Women’s Conference and sponsored three young women to attend the inaugural conference.

The former Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government, the Hon. Simon Crean MP, visited Wagga Wagga on 6 June 2012 to make an announcement regarding a new Riverina Intermodal Freight and Logistics Hub.